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PS4
Atelier Firis ~The Alchemist and the Mysterious Journey~ DX
Firis Alch. Lv.: 13, Adv. Lv.: 11: In Dona, doing things for the elder (to get that sweet recommendation)

Updated about 2 weeks ago

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iOS
Atelier Resleriana: Forgotten Alchemy and the Polar Night Liberator
Ch. 5 End - squad: Shallistera, Corneria, Rorona, Viorate, and Regina. Plot took a turn that I was thinking may happen!

Updated about 3 weeks ago

Playing on my iPad because it does not run well on my phone lol. This game is so stingy yet so generous: Free summons on every banner DAILY? Allowing you to exchange stones for summon tickets (only once per banner but still). Tons of different ways to restore stamina? It's very strange. But it has free/paid premium currency, garbage summon rates, pitiful amounts of said currency as rewards... The game looks really fabulous though, it's very high effort. Offline version when?
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Switch
Super Mario RPG
Mario and the squad explore Land's End

Updated about 2 months ago

I watched (most of) Fatguy703's streams of this remake, so very little of it will be a surprise. I'm very excited to start this! I wanted to play it sooner, but I forgot my Switch when I visited my parents for Christmas. Been around 13 years since I played through all of SMRPG, so this is exciting!
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360
Fable II
The first thing I did was flex for like 5 minutes to make someone fall in love, then we got married.

Updated about 2 months ago

I have very low expectations. Fable 1 I never ended up playing much because my copy was fucked, and Fable 3 is horrible. So far, it's enjoyable, but nothing super remarkable. It's notable for Fable in that it's the only one you can actually play as a girl!
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PS2
Super Robot Wars OG: Gaiden JPN
Scenario 35 - Top 3: #3 Masaki, #2 Kai, #1 Mai | Only boss remaining; phase 1

Updated about 3 months ago    |    Online Info Irm dodges a 98 AGAIN

I hope a more in-depth translation is made eventually. The summary on GameFAQs works okay but I feel like I'm missing a lot. Free Battle is really neat and it'd be cool if it returned in a newer game.
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PS
Final Fantasy Anthology: Final Fantasy VI
Celes and friends head west in search of Terra

Updated about 3 months ago

Like always: Terra=Priss; Locke=Kitson; Edgar=Arthur; Sabin=Quincy; Shadow=Loth; Celes=Riesz; Cyan= Noish; Gau=Alec. Never played PS1 version before! Loading times are kinda painful, but I got through CT PS1 just fine.
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PS
Rhapsody: A Musical Adventure
Doing a little replay before I dive into Rhapsody 2 and 3 at some point since I last played this 4 years ago.

Updated about 4 months ago

☆☆★★★ Completed 10/30/19. The dungeons are bland and samey. Music is nice and the English singing actually isn't that bad. It's VERY short though. Kinda want to try the other Marl Kingdom games but the lack of any official localisations would make that a bit difficult. I don't plan on getting all of the puppets or illustrations but I may one day!
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Switch
The Legend of Heroes: Trails from Zero
Chapter 2 - Day 1

Updated about 5 months ago

I don't think Zero Kai really had that many changes, so it'd basically be just playing the PC version again, but more comfortably haha.
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PS2
Atelier Marie + Elie ~Salburg no Renkinjutsushi~ 1+2: Elie no Atelier: Salburg no Renkinjutsushi 2 JPN Ownership: Other
Year 1. Barely started, but so want to play more of.

Updated about 1 year ago    |    Online Info Elie best Atelier protagonist

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about 21 hours ago

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Right Hand of Bak'laag: 1000+ unfinished games
Treasure Hunter: 1000+ games
Cursed: 10+ new games in a row
Confused: Playing 10+ games at once
I was looking at your collection and info and thought we had similar tastes and your collection isn't bad yourself.
about 2 weeks ago

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Master of Unlocking: Majority of games are completed
On Fire: 3 beat or complete in a row
Somehow, my backlog account turned eight today! Where does the time go??
about 3 weeks ago

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Master of Unlocking: Majority of games are completed
Ys IX gets undeserved amounts of flak, I really liked it personally. I stand by that precious few things happen during the first chapters of the game, so pacing isn't very tight, and the game doesn't look great. You can hear the poor ol' engine practically creaking with age at that point, plus the setting is quite drab for the majority of time. So I can see how some people didn't really like it. But the gameplay is the culmination of that particular Ys style, the plot is fantastic once it does happen and as always I liked the characters and writing. Ys still brings to the table a feeling of adventure that's not quite available elsewhere.

I have to say that the music is fantastic though, and I want to give the numerous Singa haters a giant middle finger. I don't engage in fanbases usually, but I rarely have seen a worse one than Falcom's. It's insufferable in a number of things, but especially regarding the music. With all their dogpiling on Singa, I'm quite convinced they don't have functioning ears. Pretty much everything the man did for Monstrum Nox is an absolute banger. Those people act like music connoisseurs, then at the first sign of an unconventional song structure, rhythm or progressive style of songwriting they act like it broke some fundamental laws of music or something lol. They're the worst.
about 1 month ago

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Master of Unlocking: Majority of games are completed
It does run quite good on PC, my system is old at this point (it was mid-high range when I assembled it in 2016) and it runs at 1080p@60FPS without issue. I'm at the final character-related chapter and I hope the story picks up because while the game has been enjoyable until now, I feel like the vast majority of what I've seen so far seems inconsequential lol

Vanillaware games are absolutely recommended. 13 Sentinels is a complete masterpiece of sci-fi storytelling. It's an incredibly dense and complex plot that homages each and every sci-fi trope, but somehow comes out fresh and perfectly comprehensible once you start to get the full picture.
about 1 month ago

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Master of Unlocking: Majority of games are completed
Great news about the job! Make the most out of it for as long as you can, after all no one can stop you from pursuing another, more ideal position a year or two down the line with additional experience under your belt!

I'll let you know my spoiler-free thoughts on Cold Steel as a whole when I find IV on sale and can finally play it! Though, it could be a while since after Ys IX I'll be getting Unicorn Overlord when it comes out. I'm a massive Vanillaware fan.

As for Ys IX... I dig it! It's been more than a year since I've played an Ys game, which was Celceta, and this definitely seems better. Not better than Lacrimosa for sure (as of now at least), but that's not quite fair to me as Lacrimosa really was a special game, everything in the mechanics, the story and exploration came together in a scarily perfect way, every single thing was thematically appropriate and it all felt absolutely seamless. It was kind of lightning in a bottle! I'm digging the ambition in the exploration side of things, and plot seems really promising, though it takes its time to make you know the various characters and whatnot. Gameplay is still the Lacrimosa, solid iteration of the party based Ys games. I'm liking it well enough so far, and I think things might only get better from here.
about 1 month ago

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Master of Unlocking: Majority of games are completed
I know the feeling of being considered by a place that wasn't your first choice far too well! I wish you the best luck for finding an agreeable position for you. Keep me posted if you want!

Yeah, I really liked the characters of Cold Steel 3. I personally connected to them really well through Rean, who is far better suited to the role of instructor and is a more compelling character than in the past (though he's still as corny as ever lol). The plot, overall, I also think was quite good, with the only frustrating thing being that sometimes you can see a lot of untapped potential. It's really a thing of Cold Steel as a whole though. The trope of not ever killing off characters is the biggest offender for me, it's not like you can't do that, but when you write of constantly escalating stakes, wars, doom prophecies and such, if you start to realize there are no real consequences it kind of cheapens the whole... but overall the history of Zemuria, the lore and the actual events are really interesting, they just aren't what they might be. The whole "massive saga idea" might have been kind of a trap for the writers, I'm happy for the journey and I'm enjoying it a lot, don't get me wrong, but I'm really glad that they managed to conclude it and I hope that Daybreak starts off as a clean slate of sorts. I also hope that they learned from the experience of Cold Steel and won't write themselves in a corner by overblowing the stakes lol
about 1 month ago (edited)

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Master of Unlocking: Majority of games are completed
Hey, how are you? I saw you've embarked in a Rock Band/Guitar Hero journey

Things are good for me. I moved to live on my own to a place 500km away from home since getting a job a year and a half ago. On the down side, my family is far away and my girlfriend as well (which is why I'd like to return home if a job opportunity over there arises, because we're both near 29 and we've been together for 7 years and a half, so we'd REALLY like to live together at last); on the plus side, by living alone I can spare quite a bit of time to play games. It's because of this that I said to myself "Man, this as perfect an occasion of finally finishing the Cold Steel Saga as I'll ever have in the near future". I plan on playing at least Cold Steel 4 before I move back home. If I end up going back before then... that's good news still, as it means I can finally start working towards living together with my girlfriend.

As for Cold Steel 3 itself... it's really good for me! Not a major departure from the writing style of the first two, so it's overall a bit more sappy, corny and trope-y than Sky was, but it has that nice, familiar, slow pace of the "first" in any given arc (this is the 3rd, sure, but after the timeskip post-2 it has a similar pace to the "start of arc" games). The biggest downside is that at this point the whole structure is kind of predictable (I hope that the Daybreak games will change things up quite a bit at long last), but luckily the plot itself is not. Some twists got me good. Plus, it's the beginning of the culmination of the entire journey, so the returning characters hit really really hard for me. I'd also say that the new characters are great and the bond that you can forge between Rean and the new students is really something I'm a fan of. Much like Fire Emblem: Three Houses, I find myself thinking "I will lay down my life for my idiot children" multiple times!

A break from Trails was well deserved for me, but what can I say? It feels so good to be back, they are the games I know and love even if the usual shortcomings are mostly all still there.
about 2 months ago

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Poisoned: 3+ new games in a row
Confused: Playing 10+ games at once
wow. i picked up the game around 2018... time flies, huh. they badly fumbled the remake too so any hopes of the series returning is... lol. i quite enjoyed rings of fate, and the script and VA work were really charming but it doesn;t match the quality of the original sadly ^^;;
about 2 months ago

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Poisoned: 3+ new games in a row
Confused: Playing 10+ games at once
hiya-- you're welcome! i love crystal chronicles but i only seem to pick it up once every year so progress is slow ^^;;
about 2 months ago

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Minion of Bak'laag: 100+ unfinished games
Consider Yourself a Hero: Majority of games are beaten
Focus: Only playing one game
I've listened Demons & Wizards almost twice right now! I really like The Spell, Traveller in Time and Poet's Justice; Is a really cool album overall!
about 2 months ago

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Minion of Bak'laag: 100+ unfinished games
Consider Yourself a Hero: Majority of games are beaten
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Thank you for the recommendation! I'm gonna give a listen to both of 'em and I'll let you know what I think, if you're interested.

From The Beatles I love "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band". You can't go wrong with the first half of the album.
I also really like many single tracks like "Yesterday", "Help!", "The Night Before" from "Help!" and "Now and Then" which is a pretty recent track.

The Genesis are a bit more hard to pinpoint single albums since they had a more prolific carrier with much more material.
My absolute favourite tracks are "Supper's Ready" from "Foxtrot", "One for the Vine" from "Wind & Wuthering" and "Domino" from "Invisible Touch". The best overall album overall is probably "Selling England by the Pound", where shines "Dancing with the Moonlit Knight" and "Firth of Firth". They've a more raw sound in the 70's compared to other prog rock bands of the time, but I love them since they're so unique and have composed some of the best keyboard and guitar solos ever imho (Supper's Ready and Firth of Firth especially).

Let me know if you like 'em, I'm really curious.
about 3 months ago

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Right Hand of Bak'laag: 1000+ unfinished games
Treasure Hunter: 1000+ games
Hell yes, I'm looking forward to Genealogy. I've heard it's excellent, but other FE's have been taking priority recently.
about 3 months ago

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Minion of Bak'laag: 100+ unfinished games
Consider Yourself a Hero: Majority of games are beaten
Focus: Only playing one game
Happy new year!

I really liked many songs from Rush (especially 2112 which is still a phenomenal track), but I never chewed whole albums sadly.. like Van Halen (although I still think 1984 is a masterpiece as a whole).
I've always knew Uriah Heep and Styx by name, but never met a single soul that was into them lol have you some tracks or albums to recommend me?
I like all kinds of genres and artists, but right now I'm really into Beatles, Robert Palmer, Nick Drake, 80's Genesis and Death
about 3 months ago

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Minion of Bak'laag: 100+ unfinished games
Consider Yourself a Hero: Majority of games are beaten
Focus: Only playing one game
After this shredding year, who are some of your top bands/artists at the moment?
about 3 months ago

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Right Hand of Bak'laag: 1000+ unfinished games
Treasure Hunter: 1000+ games
Howdy howdy!

Crystal Chronicles was admittedly very hard to get into at first. However, once it clicked for me, I "got it". I could see the vision and wow is it ever impressive. Had a blast playing both with friends and randoms online while I was actively playing it. If you ever get the itch to start up a new save, let's do some adventuring together.

Hope your holiday season is peaceful, and that you find the time to finish Trails from Zero.
about 4 months ago (edited)

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Master of Unlocking: Majority of games are completed
On Fire: 3 beat or complete in a row
And wow, just like that, another year almost gone. Videogaming managed to be even slower this year than last year. I've done a ton more writing and drawing and reading than video games. According to Goodreads, I've read 29 books this year. It should go up to 30 once I finish The Soprano Sorceress. Anyway, how do I even do a Top 10? It would basically just be Guitar Hero and Rock Band games, as well as Choice of Games and maybe one or two others. They're completely different genres and just about impossible to compare. So I guess I'll do something like this. A GH/RB top 10, and a CoG top three. That should work.
GH/RB
1. Rock Band 3
2. Guitar Hero 2
3. Rock Band 2
4. Guitar Hero III
5. Guitar Hero: World Tour
6. Guitar Hero: Warriors of Rock
7. LEGO Rock Band
8. Rock Band 4
9. Guitar Hero
10. Rock Band

Choice of Games
1. I, the Forgotten One
2. Vampire: The Masquerade - Night Road
3. Vampire: The Masquerade - Parliament of Knives

Honourable Mentions:
Chaos;Head NoAH
The Legend of Heroes: Trails from Zero (Haven't finished yet, but would like to before the end of the year...)
about 6 months ago

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Minion of Bak'laag: 100+ unfinished games
Consider Yourself a Hero: Majority of games are beaten
Focus: Only playing one game
Man, now that you mention it: a Ys game with just Adol and Dogi as a duo boogaloo could it be awesome! and actually just the right balance between the Ark-based games and the party-centred ones.

The Ys VIII twist was lame indeed, but I thought that the overall narrative and pacing was still pretty entertaining. But now that I think of it, that "everything was a dream" didn't happened because the gang kinda rebooted the whole universe or something like that? I don't remember it very well lol.

Dawn of Ys is pretty fun if you liked the bump based combat, there is also a translation patch for the dialogues that you can add alongside the text patch, which is pretty neat.
I know that Mask of the Sun is a bit hated, but I still think I'm gonna play it someday just for mere curiosity.. although I've heard is a struggle to play it

I've dumped countless hours in Guitar Hero and Rock Band back in the day! both alone and with friends or my brother. I've played basically every game in both series (aside from Band Hero, the third title on DS and the latest games) but my absolute favourite are probably Warriors of Rock and Rock Band 2-3. What are your favourites?
about 7 months ago

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Minion of Bak'laag: 100+ unfinished games
Consider Yourself a Hero: Majority of games are beaten
Focus: Only playing one game
I agree: Ys VIII is huge improvement over MoC.

Maybe I'm a bit spoiled because I've played that one first.. but something about MoC didn't clicked with me as hard as I hoped. Maybe because the pacing feels like it's been constantly stopped by exposition or just useless dialogue (like every party member MUST say something in every possible occasion).
Even Lacrimosa of Dana had that issue for me, but at least the general plot was a bit more interesting to me to follow.
I'm a bit conflicted about these party-based games: they can be more fast and deep combat wise than other games, but it seems a trade off to an overall slower general pacing.

Today I think that I slightly prefer the bump-combat based games (especially Ys I & II Chronicles and Dawn of Ys), and then the party-based games with the Ark of Napishtim-style ones which are a close tie for different reason.
Although I can't say that I've played "bad" Ys games, like: even Wanderers from Ys was super janky, but at least it was so memorable to me thanks the music which is still probably my favourite in the whole series (the PC Engine version, of course).

What are your general feelings today about the series?
about 9 months ago

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Right Hand of Bak'laag: 1000+ unfinished games
Treasure Hunter: 1000+ games
It's pretty clunky, but I've enjoyed what I've played so far. The only real gripe I have with it is how dark the Silver Mines dungeon was.

To me, it just feels like a slower, proper-3D Diablo. The gameplay loop has been almost identical, just with the flavor of the VtM tabletop rulebook every now and again. Not horrible, but every time I boot it up I think "man I could be playing D2R or D4 right now..."
about 9 months ago

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Right Hand of Bak'laag: 1000+ unfinished games
Treasure Hunter: 1000+ games
It’s been pretty clunky so far, but my tolerance for clunk is usually pretty high.

It has some neat ideas for sure, but I feel like a lot of that is attributed to the core tabletop rule set more than anything. Hopefully it remains somewhat enjoyable. My goal is to finish before the first, so we’ll see how that goes
Your heart will see the path and you will find the way / Just wait and see